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TECHNOLOGY – VALUES – SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT (Some Reflections on Changing Relations, Meanings and Social Practices)

Lech W. ZACHER

UNDERSTANDING TECHNOLOGY – THEORIES AND INTERPRETATIONS

Publication language: Polish

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Transformations No. 1–2 (88–89) 2016 Publication date: 12 May 2016

Abstract Narratives concerning technology and values relations requires an in-depth analysis of these two categories and also their contextualization. In social practice technology and values undergo significant changes, often revolutionary. They take systemic forms and they interact with each other. Since the [...] Read more.

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METHODOLOGICAL ANARCHISM AND ITS COGNITIVE VALUE

Magdalena SZPUNAR

Transformacje cywilizacyjne – między wiedzą, wrażliwością i wyobraźnią socjologiczną

Publication language: Polish

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Transformations No. 1 (112) 2022 Publication date: 30 March 2022

Abstract The aim of the article is to present the basic assumptions of Paul K. Feyerabend's epistemological anarchism. The article presents the value of methodological anarchism for the cognitive process, methodology and development of science, as well as the controversies associated with the application of [...] Read more.

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RECONFIGURATIONS IN THE WORLD SYSTEM – BETWEEN THE OLD DRIVING FORCES AND NEW NETWORKS

Lech W. ZACHER

Global Problems – Future – Politics – Values

Publication language: English

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Transformations No. 3-4 (78-79) 2013 Publication date: 13 November 2013

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OBSTACLES TO SUSTAINABILITY – IN PUBLIC DISCOURSE (the Case of a Transitional Economy – Poland)

Lech W. ZACHER

National Cases Augmented

Publication language: English

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Transformations No. 3-4 (94-95) 2017 Publication date: 30 November 2017

Abstract Requirements for the sustainability in economy and society should be tailored to a given country or region. General models which often dominate in academic discourse are an important part of necessary social knowledge (of decision makers, media, NGOs etc.). They are formulated in universally relevant [...] Read more.

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DIGITAL RACISM? AUTOMATED SURVEILLANCE TECHNIQUES AS TOOLS OF SEGREGATION AND DISCRIMINATION

Jan WASZEWSKI, Maciej GURTOWSKI

Transformations of Man and Society: Ideas, Perspectives

Publication language: Polish

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Transformations No. 1-2 (84-85) 2015 Publication date: 4 May 2015

Abstract This article examines one dimension of the changes in surveillance: the way in which dataveillance influences social segregation and emergence of the new forms of discrimination. The paper begins at presentation of the key concepts in surveillance studies. One of them is the creation of ‘data doubles [...] Read more.

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TRANSFORMATIONS OF LIFE IN THE TECHNOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Rafał ILNICKI

Transformations of Man and Society: Ideas, Perspectives

Publication language: Polish

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Transformations No. 1-2 (84-85) 2015 Publication date: 4 May 2015

Abstract It is argued that what constitutes human in technological society is bare life which is shaped by different technological systems. This means that human life is hardly graspable in terms of conscious existence. Analysis in this article focuses on the concept of the technological society developed by [...] Read more.

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CHANGE - TRANSFORMATION - BIG DATA: MUTUAL COUPLING

Kazimierz KRZYSZTOFEK

Transformations of Man and Society: Ideas, Perspectives

Publication language: Polish

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Transformations No. 1-2 (84-85) 2015 Publication date: 4 May 2015

Abstract The article aims at clarifying semantic and functional differences between change and transformation as seen within the cultural context. Attention is focused on processes of change/transformation brought about by the digital technologies. The social change caused by these technologies is frequently [...] Read more.

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MAN AND HIS PLACE. AROUND THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF VIRTUAL WORLDS BY TOM BOELLSTORFF

Monika MICZKA-PAJESTKA

Transformations of Man and Society: Ideas, Perspectives

Publication language: Polish

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Transformations No. 1-2 (84-85) 2015 Publication date: 4 May 2015

Abstract The article discusses the concept of Tom Boellstorff, which he himself called anthropology of virtual worlds. There is considered a problem of finding a place in the virtual space, and especially in virtual worlds like Second Life. And hence it describes the anthropological approach of Boellstorff to [...] Read more.

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FROM HOMO SAPIENS TO POST HOMO. THE HUMAN BEING ON THE ROAD OF ACCELERATED CHANGES OF IDENTITY – HUMANITY. INDEX OF QUESTIONS

Jan SZMYD

Transformations of Man and Society: Ideas, Perspectives

Publication language: Polish

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Transformations No. 1-2 (84-85) 2015 Publication date: 4 May 2015

Abstract The main thesis of this paper: The human being in the context of modern technical and information civilization is deeply submitted into accelereted changes of his kind, in evolutionary human metamorphose, e.g. he is a subject of thorough a changing as mankind; changing of his nature essence and humanity [...] Read more.

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EVALUATION OF ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL TRANSFORMATION AND THE STRATEGIC DILEMMA OF GEORGIA, 1990-2010

Vazha KAKABADZE

Varia: Political Transformations

Publication language: English

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Transformations No. 3-4 (82-83) 2014 Publication date: 2 December 2014

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FROM GLOBALIZATION WAVES TO GLOBAL CIVILIZATION

Andrew TARGOWSKI

Prospect Thinking in Action

Publication language: English

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Transformations No. 3-4 (82-83) 2014 Publication date: 2 December 2014

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EDUCATION FOR PEACE: OVERCOMING POST-MEMORY AND BUILDING A SAFE FUTURE

Krystyna M. BŁESZYŃSKA, Marek SZOPSKI

Prospect Thinking in Action

Publication language: English

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Transformations No. 3-4 (82-83) 2014 Publication date: 2 December 2014

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THINKING OF THE METROPOLIS WITH A DIFFERENCE

Aleksandra KUNCE

Prospect Thinking in Action

Publication language: English

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Transformations No. 3-4 (82-83) 2014 Publication date: 2 December 2014

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AUSTRALIA’S LOW-CARBON ECONOMY AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLE

Tony MCRAE, Phil WEBSTER, Dora MARINOVA

Environment - Sustainability

Publication language: English

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Transformations No. 3-4 (82-83) 2014 Publication date: 2 December 2014

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